Senior Software Engineer, Atlas Encryption | MongoDB

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San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 190,000 - 240,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity & ESPP

Flexible PTO

Parental leave (20 weeks)

Fertility and adoption assistance

401(k)

Mental health counseling

Inclusive health insurance

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Atlas Clusters Organization. You will design and build new features for MongoDB Atlas, focusing on encryption at rest with customer-managed keys across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Join a team responsible for security and compliance in highly regulated markets, mentor teammates, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with product and design to deliver robust, scalable backend systems.

Qualifications

Experience designing large-scale backend systems in a compiled language (Java, Go, etc.).
Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Experience leading feature launches and maintaining production systems.

Responsibilities

Design and build new features for MongoDB Atlas.
Contribute to and lead complex technical projects.
Collaborate with product and design teams to keep the user’s perspective.
Design and operate encryption and key-management systems in production, and lead fleet-wide rollouts.
Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues, including encryption and key-management problems on customer clusters.
Mentor teammates and participate in on-call rotations to support Atlas production services.

Skills

Java

Distributed backend

Cloud providers

On-call

Cloud KMS

IAM

Encryption

Private networking

Job description

MongoDB is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Atlas Clusters Organization, which builds MongoDB Atlas, its fastest-growing database-as-a-service product. Atlas lets users deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed clusters in minutes, using software that interfaces with AWS, Azure, and GCP. This role sits on the Encryption & Compliance team, which owns Encryption at Rest with customer-managed keys (\"Bring Your Own Key\") across all three clouds, including private networking to customer key management systems. The team also owns the security and compliance work that lets Atlas serve highly regulated markets, including government offerings and internal credential management.

Key Responsibilities

Design and build new features for MongoDB Atlas
Contribute to and lead complex technical projects
Work closely with product and design teams, keeping the user’s perspective in mind
Design and operate encryption and key-management systems in production, and lead fleet-wide rollouts
Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues, including encryption and key-management problems on customer clusters
Collaborate with teammates on the codebase, best practices, and design principles
Learn from and mentor other team members
Join an on-call rotation to support Atlas production services

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional software development experience
Skill writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, Go, etc.)
Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Experience leading the launch of a new feature and maintaining it in production
Excellent communication skills
Curiosity, collaboration, and motivation to solve tough problems
Education: Not specified

Skills

Technical Skills

Java, Go, or another compiled language
Distributed backend systems
AWS, Azure, or GCP
Production operations and on-call support
Cloud key management (KMS, Key Vault, Cloud KMS), IAM, private networking, and encryption (a plus)

Soft Skills